Executive Director - Banking Partnerships

Job Summary

We are seeking a highly capable, entrepreneurial professional to help build and scale a portfolio of strategic financing partnerships across private credit, asset managers, insurers and other institutional investors. This is a unique opportunity to work at the intersection of balance sheet optimisation, structured credit, originate-to-distribute strategies, partnership origination, and strategic execution—helping shape one of the firm’s most important growth platforms.

• Work with senior leaders to deepen relationships with key institutional partners and develop new avenues of financing collaboration.
• Prepare pitches, proposals, and partnership materials that clearly articulate value, economics, return on equity impact and strategic rationale.
• Track market trends and competitor activity to position the bank for partnership-led growth.

• Work with senior leaders to deepen relationships with key institutional partners and develop new avenues of financing collaboration.
• Prepare pitches, proposals, and partnership materials that clearly articulate value, economics, return on equity impact and strategic rationale.
• Track market trends and competitor activity to position the bank for partnership-led growth.

• Build high-quality PowerPoint materials, financial models, and internal documents for senior committees, governance forums, and executive stakeholders.
• Run commercial analyses, scalability assessments, portfolio-level economics and transaction economics.
• Support the build‑out of new platforms, partnership structures, and distribution channels including operational, reporting and governance infrastructure.

• Apply strong knowledge of structured credit, private credit, securitization, or structured portfolio solutions to evaluate partnership opportunities.
• Analyse asset pools, credit risk dynamics, regulatory capital impact, capital efficiency, and distribution economics.
• Support design of originate‑to‑distribute models, credit covers, risk‑sharing structures, and investor frameworks.

• Support the origination, structuring, and execution of financing partnerships with private credit managers, asset managers, insurers, and other institutional partners.
• Drive work streams across term sheets, onboarding, legal negotiations, regulatory and accounting alignment and partnership governance.
• Coordinate with product, risk, legal, distribution, and coverage teams to deliver scalable partnership frameworks that enable balance sheet optimisation and capital recycling.

• Act as a central coordination point across multiple business lines—Risk, Legal, Capital Management, FM, CCIB, Ops, and Tech.
• Drive execution discipline across complex multi‑stakeholder processes from origination through execution and ongoing monitoring.

• Act with integrity to prevent reputational harm and operational losses.
• Develop a strong understanding of the risk and control framework within the assigned area and lead corrective actions where necessary.
• Ensure systems and controls are appropriate, effective, and aligned with Group and Business policies, procedures, standards, and codes, covering all relevant risk areas including Compliance, Technology, Operations, Finance, and Reputation.
• Establish clear accountability structures so team members are well‑equipped to perform their responsibilities effectively.
• Embed the Risk Management framework within the team by ensuring risk appetite is clearly defined aligned with strategy, supported by suitable controls, and reinforced through effective processes for risk identification, monitoring, management, and reporting.
• Ensure that identified risk issues are addressed through timely remedial actions and, where required, are appropriately escalated and reported to relevant Risk Committees or line management.
• Ensure all interactions with external parties are conducted prudently and in line with established controls to mitigate operational and reputational risk.

• Ensure effective governance, documentation, monitoring, and…